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Doug Ford's journey to winning the Ontario election and securing a second straight majority really began on St. Patrick's Day in 2020, the day he declared a state of emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Until that moment, Ford's Progressive Conservative government bore the aroma of a one-term wonder, mired in nepotism scandals and so unpopular that the premier got booed at the otherwise joyful Toronto Raptors victory parade. 

Then came the COVID-19 pandemic: 13,000 people died, Ontario closed schools for longer than anywhere in North America and Ford's promised "iron ring" around long-term care homes never materialized. 

Yet Ford has led his Ontario PCs to a bigger victory than in the last election, with 83 seats, leaving the New Democrats and Liberals in his dust and in search of new party leaders. 

How did he and his party pull off this stunning recovery? 

A key factor was the image Ford cultivated in 200-plus news conferences during the first year of the pandemic. 

Whatever you think about the way he reads from a Teleprompter or his, "God bless the people of Ontario," closing, Ford used those appearances to rehabilitate his reputation, and as a result his approval rating soared. 

There's no doubt that his government's response to the pandemic was flawed, and that eventually dragged down approval of Ford. There were plenty of voters who wanted Ford out. 

But there's also no doubt that a significant chunk of Ontarians are tired of the pandemic and want to move on. Ford's party capitalized on that, and its "Get It Done" messaging likely resonated with those who are "done" with COVID-19.

Between those two COVID-related factors, here's how it worked out: enough of the public in enough ridings gave Ford a passing grade to pave the way to an election win. Read the full story here.

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Queen Elizabeth stands as her great-grandson, Prince Louis, covers his ears on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on Thursday during a flyover as part of the celebrations to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. 

Military police in Canada have tried to transfer 62 sexual assault cases to civilian police forces since last fall — but about half of those files have been declined and sent back. The Canadian Armed Forces released new figures in response to requests from CBC News and the release of a blistering independent report on the military's ongoing sexual misconduct crisis. Canadian Armed Forces Provost Marshal Brig.-Gen. Simon Trudeau confirmed the military has attempted to transfer 49 new sexual offence cases to civilian police since November 2021. Police forces accepted 22 of the files and rejected 27. Military police also attempted to transfer 13 in-progress cases to civilian police; nine of those files are now being investigated and four cases were declined. The figures show the challenges the military faces in trying to act on an interim recommendation by former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour to transfer military sexual offence cases to civilian investigators. Read the full story here. The federal government is moving toward ending distribution of COVID-19 rapid tests to the provinces and territories by the end of the year, CBC News has learned, but it will maintain a strategic reserve of the tests. "As we approach the next phase of our COVID-19 response, we will continue to support provinces and territories by providing rapid tests until December 2022," the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) said in a statement. The agency said the federal government will maintain a strategic reserve of 100 million rapid tests "as part of the overall national preparedness strategy." Fifty million will be set aside for the provinces and territories, and the remaining 50 million will be held to address general surge requirements, PHAC said. Since October 2020, the federal government has been providing rapid tests to provinces and territories free of charge. For many Canadians, rapid antigen tests have replaced wide-scale PCR tests; fewer people are now eligible for PCR testing across the country after high demand for testing during the Omicron wave overwhelmed testing centres. Read more here.  A sternly worded internal email, apparently sent by Elon Musk ordering Tesla employees to either return to the office or leave, is raising a lot of eyebrows in a time when employees are increasingly seeking flexible work arrangements. Musk later replied to the leaked email on Twitter and said people who think coming into work is antiquated "should pretend to work somewhere else." The hard-line approach on working arrangements strongly contrasts against how some other CEOs — particularly those in the tech and startup world — are handling this latest phase of working in a pandemic. Vancouver-based entrepreneur Greg Gunn said he'll give Musk credit for being very clear about what he wants from his employees. "It's a power move," Gunn said. "Tesla historically has been a great place to work and it's been a coveted place to work." But he said Musk is ultimately "endorsing an old way of building businesses." In 2019, Gunn co-founded Canadian company Commit, which has always been fully remote. The professional network, which has no physical headquarters, is an online community where startup engineers get paid to find their next career opportunities. As someone who is strongly in favour of remote workplaces, Gunn said the approach allows him to recruit the best people for the job, regardless of where they live. Read more on this story here.  After Canada's central bank announced it was raising its overnight lending rate to 1.5 per cent, Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Paul Beaudry, in a speech Thursday to the Gatineau Chamber of Commerce, implied the bank could double those rates to defeat rising inflation. "The governing council is steadfast in its commitment to return inflation to the two per cent target and is prepared to act more forcefully if needed," he said. Questioned by reporters, Beaudry said "forcefulness" could imply future rate hikes of three-quarters of a per cent at a single session or a higher peak central bank rate of interest near three per cent. As "everything inflation" (core inflation) bulges beyond the one-to-three per cent range the bank has promised to maintain, and as the domestic economy continues to surge, higher interest rates could cause problems of their own. "If you go too far you can create misery," said Jacqueline Best, a professor at the University of Ottawa's School of Political Studies who has researched previous periods of inflation and attempts to control them. Best said the current crisis, caused partly by "a series of exogenous shocks," seems to be of a different character than those of the past. "Some people call it a polycrisis," said Best. "It's like so many crises together: pandemic, war, inflation, you know, the energy impact." Read more analysis here from CBC's Don Pittis.  The Edmonton Oilers find themselves down 2-0 in their Western Conference final against the Colorado Avalanche after the Avs shut out the Oilers 4-0 on Thursday in Denver. Colorado backup goaltender Pavel Francouz, playing in place of the injured Darcy Kuemper, stopped all 24 shots he faced. The Avalanche scored three times in the span of 2:04 in the second period, with Nazem Kadri picking up three assists. The Avs also held Edmonton's big three of Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and Evander Kane to just seven shots. The series now shifts to Edmonton for Game 3 on Saturday night. "We're certainly not counting ourselves out of this one," Oilers defenceman Tyson Barrie said. "We've got a lot of hockey left to play." Read more on Game 2 here.

Droll, disturbing and surprisingly sentimental, Crimes of the Future marks director David Cronenberg's return to what he's best known for — a vivid and visceral obsession with the body and characters driven to alter themselves. Shot in Greece and set in an empty near-future scenario, the film revolves around a group of transgressive artists who regularly perform surgery on themselves. Viggo Mortensen plays Saul, who grows and then displays his neo-organs to the baying crowds in a warped cabaret. In this dirty, dank dystopia there are organ registrars played by Don McKellar and a positively giddy Kristen Stewart. While they cloak themselves with the air of authority, they are clearly the groupies to this new artistic movement. With a storyline involving mutant hybrids and ingested microplastics, Crimes of the Future seems timely, but it's actually based on a script Cronenberg started 20 years ago. After a lot of prodding from Canadian producer Robert Lantos, Cronenburg pulled it out of a drawer for another look. With typical Cronenbergian humility he told CBC News, "I read it and I thought, 'Yeah, it is good and yeah, I wouldn't mind making it.'" Read more on this story here. 

Now for some good news to start your Friday: It was a cloudless midsummer day in 2019 when Siaja Parceaud-May noticed a Booth's sulphur butterfly that had some "noticeable differences." She was about an hour north of her home community of Kuujjuaq in Quebec's Nunavik region with a team of entomologists and researchers from the Montreal Insectarium, learning how to identify and collect butterflies. Along a sandy, cleared ridge toward Ungava Bay, she spotted the peculiar critter that would be sent to Montreal for further analysis. Her hunch turned out to be right. More than a year later, insectarium director Maxim Larrivée wrote to her — confirming that she had discovered a new subspecies of Colias tyche. To her surprise, it would be named in her honour: Colias tyche siaja. "I was alone at home when I found out and I was jumping. It's kind of like one of my dreams come true," she said. "It's kind of a sign that there may be other species that we don't know about." Read more about the discovery.

Denialists seek to downplay or distort basic facts about residential schools to shake public confidence and undermine truth and reconciliation efforts, write Kisha Supernant and Sean Carleton. Read their column here.

Colombia's presidential election is heading to a pivotal runoff between two political outsiders: a former guerilla fighter turned senator who could become the country's first left-wing president, and a 77-year-old right-wing populist TikTok star. It's a critical time for the country, six years after a historic peace deal that was supposed to end 50 years of civil war. But instead of promised peace and a new future, Colombians have faced extreme income inequality, resurgent cocaine cartels and new militias taking up arms and causing bloodshed.  With stark choices and real consequences, where does Colombia go from here?

1778: The first issue of La Gazette du commerce et littéraire, the forerunner of the Montreal Gazette, is published. 1799: The Island of St. John is proclaimed as Prince Edward Island. 1935: During the Great Depression, about 1,000 unemployed men from Western Canada begin their On to Ottawa Trek to confront Prime Minister R.B. Bennett over his government's operation of relief camps. They were stopped in Regina, where a riot broke out on July 1. 1968: The Royal Canadian Mint announces it would replace the silver in its coins with a nickel alloy beginning in August.

With files from The Canadian Press, The Associated Press and Reuters

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